Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 35
“All hail,” cried they, “to the sword of Islam, the terror of the unbelievers!
Who acts: hail · What happens: cry · To what, where: achievements, sword
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hail | det |
| 3 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hail | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hail | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Islam | case |
| 14 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sword | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 terror | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 terror | det |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sword | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 unbelievers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 unbelievers | det |
| 20 | unbelievers | unbeliever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 terror | nmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | all hail | achievements = achievement | the sword of Islam and the terror of the unbelievers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to sword=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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